Chandra

This post deviates from the Sun Marathon slightly only to complete talking about concepts underlying the Earth’s immediate planetary system, i.e. the Sun-Earth-Moon system. In this post I will use Vedic concepts introduced so far to explain the Sun-Earth-Moon system, i.e. the Sun at the center, the Earth revolving around the Sun and the Moon’s axis tilt of the Earth. Then I will explain some interesting concepts that connect the Sun and the Moon.

Now that you have a clear understanding of what the Sun represents in Vedic terms, i.e. the Sun represents the Understanding/Modeling aspect in beings and science. All we have to do now is to take this understanding further. The word Understanding represents the Core/Center of Knowledge that is used to analyze or design/create some entity of interest. It is the common set of laws that scientists and mathematicians revolve around to explain their theories. For theories to make sense, these laws must be rigid and not be changing completely otherwise the Understanding is incomplete. With that said, the Core can be imagined to be some immobile entity once developed. Hence the Vedic authors concluded that the Sun is at the center of the Universe and that every other celestial entity in the Universe is either moving away from this point (the growth aspect of Agni I spoke about earlier when explaining the Vedic perspective of the Creation of the Universe) or revolving around it.  Once the Sun being the center was established, it only made sense that the Earth was not only rotating about its axis to give it Day and Night but also revolving around the Sun to receive the Sun’s Energy in all directions (i.e.  utilizing all laws developed in the Understanding).

Based on this understanding of the Sun, Vedic Science extrapolates it to multiple entities. Examples can be that in every object there exists a center which is the center of mass of that object or a soul in a being that governs the being’s functionality. Hence according to Vedic understanding, there exists a soul in every being that defines the being’s laws of behaviorism. In Vedic terms, what you are is your soul and not your body.

Now let me introduce the Chandra concept of the Vedas.

CHANDRA:

Chandra is a Sanskrit word meaning the Moon. The Chandra concept was developed based on what the Vedic authors (and everyone else) noticed about the Moon. The Moon sheds varying proportions of light on the dark sky in a periodic manner. It varies from full light to no light back-and-forth. This gave the Vedic authors the idea of tuning, regulation, control and all the likes. It’s much like a manufacturing process where certain amounts of heat or gas are dispatched into the process at specific times to control/regulate how the entity being manufactured is manufactured. Another example could be cooking something where at specific times you use full heat or low heat, close the pot or keep it open, put certain proportions of salt and other spices, and etc. Based on this conceptual extrapolation, the Vedic authors figured out that the Moon was in fact controlling/regulating stuff on the Earth. The fact a location on Earth gets both Day and Night must be because of the Moon, i.e. the Moon is the sole cause of the planet Earth rotating upon its axis. This is in complete agreeance with modern space scientists (you may watch “The Moon” episode from The Universe TV Show: http://www.hulu.com/watch/377142#s-p1-so-i0).

So the Chandra concept includes keywords such as regulation, control, weighting, etc. This is similar to the Vedic concept Rudra. Both Rudra and Chandra work hand-in-hand and the combination is what is known today as Shiva (Shiva is Rudra with the Moon on his head, together giving out what is necessary to sustain/control the system of interest, the Ganges or Soma. That’s why Soma is associated with the Moon in plenty Vedic literature.).

Since the Chandra concept is about regulation and control, the Vedic authors went ahead to associate the periodic appearance of the seasons with the Moon. Then with the help of the Maruts concept, i.e. the closer an object is to an entity of interest, the similar the characteristics are, the Vedic authors realized that the Moon brings one half of the Earth (keeping in mind The Ashwins concept of Symmetry) closer to the Sun while the other half away in a periodic manner. That meant that the Moon in fact tilts the Earth’s axis of rotation.

With simple Vedic concepts, we were able to construct how the Sun-Earth-Moon planetary system looks like. Likewise with deeper and more detailed Vedic concepts and understanding, I’m sure it is possible to construct the entire Solar System, and that’s what the Indians, Egyptians and Mayans did without using hi-tech telescopy.

Now let’s gets into concepts that connect the Sun and Moon together.

THE SUN-MOON DUO:

The Sun and Moon have been the basis for many cultures and tribes that have existed on planet Earth.  Though each culture or tribe would have different perspectives of the Sun and Moon, I will throw light on the Vedic culture’s perspective on the Sun and Moon.

From the first-hand Vedic knowledge we have developed so far, we can perceive that Vedic culture was fundamentally about learning (Surya) and actuation based on what was learned (Chandra). Hence education in multiple disciplines (Surya) was a vital part of the Vedic culture. This was further emphasized by creating a specific Goddess (for the multiplicity part) of Education popularly known as Saraswati. Once something is learned, it reflects onto your actions when performing a task (the Moon reflecting the Sun’s light on the Earth).

The Sun and Moon also represented the two genders female and male respectively (the association of the Sun with feminine and the Moon with male should by now be clear to you). Hence during marriages the Sun and the Moon are invoked. Here the interesting fact is that the Earth has only one Sun and one Moon. In Vedic terms, an Agni-Prithvi (a planet with life) can only have one Sun and one Moon to define a natural law that one man weds one wife. Here’s where trying to work against this gets really interesting.

Let’s assume that the natural law defines that one man can wed two wives and use the Vedic understanding we have developed so far to check if this is conceptually stable (i.e. using the Indra concept of Closure). For the assumed law to work within the realm of the Vedas, it means that the underlying planetary system will have two Suns for one Earth and one Moon. Two Suns existing in the planetary system implies that a single object will have two centers-of-mass or each living being will have two souls. So how would the creation sequence look like for this planetary system to exist? It will be Purusha connected to two Prithvis via one Vayu, one Soma and two Agnis. This means we are already talking about two Earths which violates the Two Suns, One Earth and One Moon system that was initially sketched. So such a system is conceptually unstable and cannot exist according to Vedic theories.

Let’s try this the other way round, i.e. one woman weds two husbands. The underlying planetary system will consist of One Sun, One Earth and Two Moons. This means that one system requires two controllers to actuate a single input. Mathematically it violates the conservation of dimensionality. This also assumes that the system will be at two different states at the same time due to a single input such that two controllers are required. The creation sequence required to create this system will be two Purushas connected to one Prithvi via two Vayus, two Somas and one Agni. So in this system the Earth is expected to receive energy from two Suns. This again violates the initial sketch that was One Sun, One Earth and Two Moons. Such a system is also conceptually unstable and hence cannot exist.

The above analytical technique is a product of the Sun-Moon combination. The Sun models the laws of nature as some closed form interconnection between multiple things (I’m using the word ‘things’ for lack of a better word to describe it. I’m quite sure the English language does not have a word to describe this profound connectivity). The Moon utilizes this model of profound connectivity to conceptually construct how this Universe was designed. This was in fact the basis of the Vedic culture.

With this I conclude the Chandra concept and will resume the Sun Marathon in my next post.

Surya

In my previous post I explained the concept of Purusha and used the concept to provide insights to the Vedic understanding to the creation of the Universe and how it differed from the popular Big Bang Theory. You may have noticed that I also used the creation sequence to explain the gender hierarchy in humans or possibly other species as well. I can go further to use the creation sequence to explain the top-down approach in business where all work is done to accomplish a certain “end product”, i.e. the Prithvi of the company. The end product is typically the goal set by the topmost level (Prithvi) in the company which the bottom levels (Purusha) work to achieve. Hence, as a matter of fact, these different ideas are actually interconnected together by a single concept, the creation sequence Purusha-Vayu-Soma/Apa-Agni-Prithvi. If the position of one of these deities is interchanged with another, would the sequence then be successful in explaining all the inter-associated ideas still? If suppose I interchange the positions of Vayu with Agni to make the masculine gender the topmost in the gender hierarchy can this new sequence still explain the fundamental law of imperpetuality? No. If Agni is interchanged with Vayu it means that a random initial state is always the solution leaving no room for further tuning to achieve any desired outcomes. If this was the fundamental law of nature then nothing can be built, no civilizations would have existed, the concept of communication or evolution becomes devoid, the world we live in itself would have not been created nor even the universe. Hence there cannot exist such a world with the masculine gender as the topmost gender in the gender hierarchy. This is the kind of interconnected understanding the Vedas give. Speaking of understanding, I now commence the Sun marathon with Surya, the Vedic concept of understanding.

SURYA:

Surya is the Sanskrit word meaning the Sun. The Sun is a very simple but important component of nature and also for the Vedas. It will be surprising to know how such a simple component or element can reveal many things about nature itself.
The Sun is the primal source of energy for the Earth and other planets around it. As the source of energy, the Vedas classify the Sun as a masculine in form. But also as a source, it is the center point or treasure (the end point) that is sought. It is this quality that classifies the Sun also as feminine in form. In philosophical terms it is both the Father and the Mother. As the Father, he is a Guardian and a Guider and as the Mother she is a Healer.

The Vedic perspective of the Sun is an embodiment of multiple Fires (Agni) interconnected together. Hence all properties of Agni are used but in plurality. Surya can be depicted as an object receiving information from multiple angles or dimensions. The interconnection of these multiple dimensions is what brings Understanding. The interconnections give a structure (Varuna) to the information that is being received and this is why the Vedic authors wrote that Surya is the eye of Varuna. Why the eye and not the mouth or ears? This is because the Eye is such an object that receives a multitude of information about its surroundings. The brain (Varuna) that has structure receives ample information from the eyes (Surya) to restructure itself. The video link posted below shows this quality of the brain explained by one scientist.

http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.html

The brain not only uses the eyes to receive information but also the ears, nose, touch and taste. To the brain, these five senses collectively represent Surya. The job of these five senses is to provide information only. This information is usually in the form of loose connections, much like an ocean of water (water has loosely connected molecules), and it is from this pool rigid interconnections are made to create an understanding. That is why it is sometimes dangerous to believe something only through seeing and hearing. Humans are equipped with the sixth sense, the sense of understanding, that works beyond the five senses. The concept of meditation is wound around this. In the Vedas this is phrased as the Sun, that is hidden in the ocean, is raised from it towards the Sky (the source – hence understanding becomes the primal source of knowledge for a being). Many speechless terrible things are happening in this world today due to the lack of understanding. Also the idea of a divine spirit governing the functions of this universe is a product of the sixth sense which many fail to do because they arrogantly use only the five senses and get diabolically furious when made to use the sixth sense.

The Vedic authors realizing this concept must have concluded that nature itself is interconnected by multiple things that give its profound structure. Hence, this very idea must have guided them to write the Vedas by analyzing multiple aspects of nature into general concepts that make the multitude of natural inter-associations intact. It is only through understanding can someone find a solution for a desired outcome (understanding as the Mother). It is also understanding that provides guidance in ones endeavors (understanding as the Father).

The above paragraphs have explained the most important understanding of the Vedic Deity Surya. Other aspects of the Sun will be covered further in this Sun marathon. Before I go further in the marathon, I will cover Chandra, the Moon, in my next post along with some interesting insights about the connection between the Sun and the Moon. It may give insights about the religions of many tribes that exist today but specifically it will give insights to the culture of ancient India.

Purusha

In my last post I introduced you to an important deity Ardhanareshwar, the half Shiva half Parvathi deity, and gave you a few examples of the concepts it talks about. Based on one of the examples I gave, I’m going to make another important extrapolation of the Ardhanareshwar deity. Using the example that Ardhanareshwar tells that there exists multiple paths to divinity and that an individual selects only one among them, there exists multiple universes like our universe that follow different paths to same upper world, i.e. the Divine World. These universes are parallel universes having their own unique (Vishnu) set of rules (Varuna) to progress to the Divine World. If scientists were to find alien planets like our planet Earth, they will have to look outside our universe, i.e. by first entering a worm-hole portal to another universe. These other universes probably exist because our universe, which may look absolutely perfect for us, may not actually be perfect in the perspective of the Divine World. Our universe may be suitable for only certain types of souls to progress to the Divine World. The other universes may be tailored to be suitable for a mutually independent set of souls. Or if one universe produces a bad by-product soul, this soul could be sent to another appropriate universe to clean it. Hence these universes act like organs to the Divine World. This extrapolation may not be a perfect extrapolation because I’m not from the Divine World, but it could be close to it.

PURUSHA:
Purusha is a very important Vedic concept and a very important scientific concept. It is concept that tells nothing in this world is perpetual. Everything that happens or exists has a source or in order for something to happen or exist something must be done or expended. Purusha is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘The man of the house’, i.e. the source of income in the household. This comes from the male’s natural tendency to be the source of income for the household which is why it is not a good idea to ask a man how much he is earning.

Purusha is an important deity in the Vaastu Chart as well. It is the deity that connects the two halves of the chart. The Purusha part of the Vaastu Chart is mobile and its orientation depicts the phase of action or creation. More specifically the deity at the Foot of Purusha empowers the deity at the Head of Purusha and various insights can be drawn by this connection. The foot as the source of empowerment tells that the foot is an important source of energy for every creature. The mechanical pressure by which the foot is pressed on the ground by the weight of the body provides energy to the body. Likewise in an organization, the foot, which is the root level, is one that empowers the goals of the head of the organization. Therefore, the fact that the Brahmins (who were considered the educated class) ill-treated the Shudras was a complete violation of their own doctrine and was the cause of their downfall and the downfall of Hinduism a long time ago.

Given that Purusha is also an important deity in the creation sequence, let me now explain what the Vedic idea of the Creation of the Universe and the Earth is from this sequence. Then we can compare this with the Big Bang Theory postulated by modern scientists. Let me first remind you the sequence. It is Purusha-Vayu-Soma/Apa-Agni-Prithvi. According to the Vedas, the universe was created by the actions of a being from the upper world. This being (Purusha) churned (Vayu) something that generated material (Soma), probably the electric charges. This churning continued and more of such material was being generated and the energy of the system was accumulating. The energy was confined to a bounded region (Prithvi) which caused the generation of Fire (Agni) spots in the region (this comes from the Agni-Prithvi association) and expansion (i.e. growth - Agni). These Fire Spots then began to suck in the material (a property of Agni) and the material began distributing accordingly. Now the fact that there were multiple such Fire Spots, the churning must have happened at multiple locations on the bounded region according to the Law of Conservation (brotherhood of Agni and Indra) where the number of Fire Spots created is equal to the sum of the number times and number of locations churned on that region. This multiple churning would have happened in a regulated manner (Rudra) by one individual. Hence the Vedic authors gave Aum (from the Vayu (churning) of Creation) another epithet of Shiva through the phrase ‘Aum Namah Shivaya’. The Fire Spots sucked in material uptil its capacity at which point they began to cool into solid form (Prithvi). The material or charges would have converted (Agni) to specific atoms and molecules (Prithvi) during this stage. The churning would have been regulated in a specific pattern (Varuna) in both Time and Space in order to provide the Universe under construction a specific or unique (Vishnu) texture/structure. A structure that defines the rules of the Universe’s System and the rules for divine progression. The Big Bang Theory on the other hand talks about a thermal instability from out of nowhere on a massive object that created the Universe and the Earth.

In Bharathanatyam, the Anandha Thandavam depicts creation as the dance of Shiva. Anandha means ‘Happiness’ in Sanskrit. Hence it says that the qualities of happiness where injected into the Universe during its creation. In this Universe, divinity can be achieved only through happiness where nothing, such as wealth, status, etc, bounds you. But to enter that kind of state requires a lot of churning, twisting, etc, which will be horrifying to you when it occurs. Or without taking necessary risks (the horror) one will never get what he/she really wants (the happiness). The intonation of Anandha Thandavam too has horrifying touch to it. It looks confusing in the beginning because happiness and horror don’t look associated.

My next post will commence the Sun marathon. In this marathon a whole new set of interesting concepts will be introduced to you. Things that you never expected to be connected will begin being connected and you may possibly fall flat (the horror) when trying to digest it. There nothing to worry about when that happens because the same thing also happened to me and I turned out fine later (the happiness).

Varuna

In my previous post I gave a short exercise in reconstructing paradise from the Deities I covered so far. I had also given a short list to aid you, the reader, if you were interested in doing it. From the exercise, you could have come to the following conclusions:
1) Each individual on this planet is regarded as the most significant entity by the planet itself.
2) The purpose of each individual is to learn something from whatever is given to him/her.
3) Each individual has a unique combination of qualities that are purposeful for himself/herself as well as for the planet.
4) From the qualities given, the individual has the capability to control certain aspects of the environment he/she resides in.
5) The planet doesn’t consist of only one individual but many. Therefore, each individual learns to blend in the environment he/she resides in.
6) An intellectual individual weighs all the obstacles before doing what he/she wants to do and in return learns from them.
7) The goals of each individual are protected between the individual and the planet.
8) The planet is the source of the individual’s survival. The individual in return gives back whatever the planet requires from him/her.

From the conclusions listed above, it becomes implicit that paradise is not only about getting what one wants but to also give. In fact, there’s more in the giving side (Shiva) than getting (This conclusion comes from the understanding of the Maruts – The core of any entity is Shiva, the science of the entity’s behaviour). The imbalance brings about sacrificial qualities (Agni) by which the concerned individual learns. This imbalance should not be confused with the balance between what the planet expects from the individual and what the individual does. From the previous post, Agni’s association with the Maruts gives Agni the keyword of Doing. This keyword enhances Agni’s keyword of Sacrifice.

By including the Maruts in the exercise, it enhances the notion of communication between the individual and its environment. This notion of communication was seen by the Vedic authors as the most significant thing that binds the Universe together. In fact nothing would have existed if entities did not have the capability of communicating with each other. Even light would not be able to travel if it fundamentally can’t move from, say, an infinitesimal distance from point A to point B. Time would also not exist if time A can’t move to time B. In order to classify this as a single notion, the Vedic authors termed it as Aum.

AUM:

The idea of Aum was derived from the creation sequence Purusha-Vayu-Soma-Agni-Prithvi that fundamentally describes one entity transferring something to another entity. The entities are Purusha and Prithvi. Removing Purusha and Prithvi leaves Vayu as the prime reason for anything to be transferred between two points and its counterpart Agni, becomes the prime reason for anything to receive what was transferred (Soma). The Vedic authors then had to signify Vayu in their idea of Aum (yet to be developed). Using Vayu, they represented the idea of Aum as some Sound Energy (not necessarily saying that Sound Energy is the only energy that creates movement). To further enhance this representation (Indra) – note that it is being confined, they figured out that all terrestrial living creatures have a mouth that modulates the air to send a message. As humans, the mouth is by far the most significant thing that enables us to communicate our thoughts and emotions. From this came script writing which requires the imagination of sound when reading or writing.

A sequence of phonemes was then made to represent the source (Purusha), i.e. the individual. They came up with Aah-Ooh-Mmm that represents The Abdomen – The Heart – The Head. Surprisingly, I noticed that the Native Americans too have the same sequence. Instead of combining Aah and Ooh into one Au to make Aum or Om like the Indians, they combined Ooh and Mmm as one and hence they say it as Aah-Umm.

Aum became the symbol for Hinduism when religions began dividing the humans. Until then as per Vedic Scriptures, an individual was given the right to create his/her own Deity, possibly from existing Deities, that represents the individual’s character and goal (which are already bounded) in the divine sense. The notion of religion did not exist fundamentally. The Vedic ascetics at the time of division would have not understood why the people wanted to symbolize a formless entity. In fact they were ready to adopt the teachings into theirs and maintain one belief system, much like how they adopted the teachings of Buddha. But symbolism was what drove them and so to protect the Vedic teachings, they too had to symbolize the formless entity.

By formlessness, it means that the concept of communication exists in all scientific fields. Today, we use this concept in money distribution (Economics), heat distribution (Thermodynamics), charge distribution (Electronics), variable distribution (Software – no ics here), knowledge distribution (Spirituality), etc, as there are many more. It is definitely very difficult to represent all this as one sensible symbol. Well, you can make an insensible symbol that probably looks weird and say it represents everything.

By now, you, the reader, have come across the use of sequences in Vedic Science. This is actually an important Vedic concept which I’m going to cover right now.

VARUNA:

Varuna, in Vedic depiction, is the God of Rain or the God of the Sky. The depiction of Varuna as the God of Rain helped me more in understanding what Varuna actually represents. His depiction of the God of the Sky comes after understanding the actual representation.

As the God of Rain, I personally saw the specific sequence of events as the representation of Varuna. Hence I associated the keyword ‘Sequence’ to Varuna. This very keyword explained most of Varuna’s characteristics given in Vedic Literature. From the notion of Sequences comes the notion of Patterns and Rules. From Rules comes the Law. This Sequence can represent a sequence of events in time or the sequence of structure (patterns or rules). Are there more? Well I just defined sequences on two infinites, time and space. The number system too is a sequence and so is the music scale.

It so happens that all sequences are closed (Indra) sequences. Very often in Vedic Literature will you find the animosity between Indra and Varuna caused by Indra’s overthrow of Varuna’s Rule. The animosity depicts Indra’s constraint on Varuna, i.e. sequences of anything must close. Indra and Varuna were placed facing each other in the Vaastu Chart probably for this reason. Hence Time, Space, The Number System, The Music Scale, Sentences (meaning is closed or complete) etc, are all in closed form sequences. When these sequences close, they become Indra entities.

Sequences left open become uncontrolled or wasteful as there is no reuse or repeatability. Closed sequences also help in monitoring a particular portion of its sequence. This concept is heavily used in Closed Loop Control Systems, today, where measuring instruments are part of the process (sequence of activities) control. In Vedic depiction, the measuring part for process control maintenance is the Sun, the eye of Varuna. The Sun (Surya), which I will describe in detail later in my Sun Marathon, is an entity of multiple Fires (Agni). As Varuna’s eye, Surya measures (Agni) multiple parameters of the ongoing process (Varuna) and controls it based on its set of defined rules (Varuna). Likewise, natural systems are usually self-correcting (Indra) systems, e.g. the planet Earth.

In the Vaastu Chart (a closed sequence of Deities with Varuna as one of them), it becomes evident that the starting node is Varuna. This starting node is empowered by one of the later nodes, Indra. Actually it is Varuna-Chandra empowered by Indra-Aditya but since I have not yet explained Chandra and Aditya, I’m breaking it down to Varuna empowered by Indra. In the design perspective, this translates as during the commencement of a design a closed or complete (Indra) specification sheet (Varuna) is required. In the learning perspective, the learner looks for a closed or complete set of rules that can be used to understand something. These set of rules or patterns become the alphabets in that particular understanding which when arranged in different ways form different meanings, i.e. different words. If you had watched “The Gods must be crazy” movie, you will get the idea of I’m talking about. In that movie, they show two different cultures, the White Western Culture and the Black African Tribal Culture. In the perspective of both, the other is illiterate because they (the other) can’t read the patterns known to the them. For the African Tribe, the patterns they learned to read were events that happened in a particular area, e.g. deer fighting (I think), whereas in the West (or Europe I think), patterns they learned to read were some kind of data on a computer plot. The two pattern analysis had different purposes (Vayu, which is why Vayu comes after Varuna in the Vaastu Chart) and because of this difference the movie showed that one race is not superior or inferior to the other.

The Vaastu Chart, today, is understood only as a building construction chart. There is actually a lot more to it than just a building construction chart. Once I have covered all the Deities in that chart, I will dedicate one post to explain in detail the Vaastu Chart. There are two versions of the Vaastu Chart you can find on the internet. A simplified one, which is the more common one, and an advanced one. The advanced one is a little more intricate and quite complicated for me. The simplified one, however, gives really good insights on the Vaastu chart which I will cover.

Just like the Vaastu Chart, the Creation Sequence which is also a sequence of Deities, has a lot more to it than just a Creation Sequence. Other than a creation sequence, according to me, this sequence also tells gender progression. With Purusha starting the sequence and Prithvi ending the sequence, it kind of tells that the male progresses to the female. :S. For a guy it sounds weird, but I bet the girls would love this. There is, however, enough evidence within the sequence to support this. Note that Purusha is associated with Vayu while Prithvi is associated with Agni. Purusha’s association with Vayu translates to the male as agents of change while Prithvi’s association with Agni translates to the female as a mediation to the next level. Since the next level to human is divinity, the feminine is a mediation between the human and the divine. As I mentioned earlier in one of my posts, the woman is actually form of divinity represented in Parvathi. The masculine, on the other hand, are agents of change in the human race or any other species (they are the ones who have a natural tendency to go out to the world and make their mess). It is in fact an interesting theory to consider in mapping which species progresses to which species in the hierarchy. So according to the Karma concept, a man’s next birth is a woman if the man met all requirements to complete him as a man. Little more thinking in this direction, a good man becomes a hot chick in his next birth. :P. Again, with the associations of Vayu and Agni with Purusha and Prithvi respectively, and that Agni’s characteristics place Agni as the elder one among the brotherhood of Agni, Indra and Vayu, it shows that the feminine reaches maturity much faster than the masculine. This is true in the biological sense as well. The Egyptians made their Agni counterpart, Shu, feminine probably for this reason.

As mentioned earlier, the Vedas represent singularity as masculine and plurality as feminine. This is another concept that supports the gender progression. The representation doesn’t mean that men can only do one thing at a time and women can only to multiple things at a time. They are actually common characteristics. In fact both men and women do multitasking or just do one thing. To compensate for the representation, the Vedic saints introduced a deity termed Ardhanareswar to show that both men and women do multitasking or just do one thing at a particular point of time. Ardhanareswar is a deity that is half Shiva and half Parvathi. At the point of its introduction, it became a more powerful form due to concept it represented. The concept was powerful enough to explain why alien planets don’t exist and that the planet Earth is the only planet with life in this massive universe. The Ardhanareswar deity explains that to implement a single (Shiva) entity it requires a multitude (Parvathi) functionality to define it or a single entity is made up of a multitude of other entities. Examples are the human body system that has multiple organs that make it work, a car engine that has multiple other parts just to ensure the cylinders run the wheels smoothly, a source code of a software application that has multiple functions and libraries to make it work (also to note is that there is only one main function for a software application that calls other routines), etc. Likewise the massive universe exists just to define the functionalities of every species living on the planet Earth including the stimulus that runs it (the stimulus part comes from the understanding of the Gayathri Manthra which I will cover after Savitr in the Sun Marathon). Ardhanareswar also explains that there exists multiple paths to divinity and that one of them can be chosen by an individual. Multitasking in fact is achieved by regulating multiple single tasks in consequent time frames in software. In human life, an individual has multiple things to deal with such work, family, personal development, community, etc. The individual has to regulate these in a well-balanced (Vishnu) manner. This is because an individual has multiple purposes (Vayu, but Vayu is also associated with Rudra – the important aspect of Shiva) for the planet.

Varuna has an important companion called Mitra by which He is always paired with. Mitra is a Sun Deity which I will cover in the Sun Marathon. Together they provide an interesting concept especially when they are paired with the Sun-Moon pair.

Now that you as the reader have come across too much of Purusha, I might consider posting about Purusha before the commencing the Sun marathon.

The Maruts

By now you as a reader of this blog, if you have come this far, you will realize that Vedic Science is all about trying to visualize things pictorially and knowing keywords associated with each Deity, how they relate with the others and understanding the outcome. You will also be able to reconstruct what paradise is, based on the Deities I have covered so far. All you need to do is to jot down their keywords and play the game. Don’t forget to include the feminine Deities too. They, too, are very important. To aid you in doing that here’s a short list:

Vishnu – Individuality, Uniqueness, Protection, Good Shape, Intellectual, Good Balance.
Lakshmi – Abundance in Multiple aspects, Beauty.
(Vishnu and Lakshmi go together: Living and Blending in an Environment)
Shiva – Controllability of Filtered Contents to give an outcome
Durga – Courage or Motivation in Multiple ways
(Shiva and Durga go together: Doing something good for the Environment against possible obstacles)
Agni – Learning, Consuming, Sacrifices, Growth.
Indra – Limits, Reuse of Resources, Getting Feedback.
Vayu – Changing with Changing Environment, Purpose.
Prithvi – Entity.
Dyava – The Environment.
(Prithvi and Dyava go together: An Entity gets coupled to an Environment)
Soma – The Resources

These things are also good points to keep in mind when building a product. Now I’m going to talk about something that will lift your Vedic understanding quite higher because this Deity kinds of binds together some of the Deities we have discussed so far. That means we are reaching closure(by closure it means that the knowledge you have so far will take shape(Vishnu), so it will have an individuality and be protective of itself from breaking) but not fully.

THE MARUTS:

There is quite a lot about the Maruts I will be covering in this post. Firstly let’s start from the etymology. Maruts comes from the Sanskrit root “mar” meaning “to shine”. As a noun and in plural they mean The Shining Ones. They are followers of Indra meaning they assume circular forms or some closed loop form. A better way to interpret their appearance is by imagining a wave propagating isotropically.



The simple diagram above that represents the Maruts has a lot to it. Firstly each ring in the diagram above represents a level of intensity. The bigger the ring, the lower the intensity. Just the way we all perceive light generated by a light bulb or the Sun or any light source. The closer we get to it, the brighter it appears. This one interpretation can give light to many concepts I’m about to unravel in this post.

Now let’s look at what the Vedas describe about how they are generated. The Vedas describe them to be generated by Vayu. That means a Change in something generates them, which is true scientifically because that’s how Electromagnetics(the thing that allows your electronic devices to transmit wirelessly) work. In fact anything that changes propagates something. It all depends on how influencing the change is, i.e. how far it can go before it can make no effect. Think of a simple pond. When you throw a stone into it you see some waves. The stone that fell into the pond created an energy(Soma) change to the water molecules in one region. That energy spread with molecules closer to that region, thereby receiving more of that energy. At this point you will understand if I say that the Maruts are self-generating. It’s simple. An energy change in one region created a ring that received most of the energy. Now since there was an energy change in that ring region, it created another ring that received most of the energy it had and this goes on. Remember that I said most of the energy and not all. Very soon you will understand Maruts connection with Agni and that will tell you that each molecule in the ring would have sucked some portion of that energy before letting the rest out.

With this model, we can include some control of this to get range of influence we require. The Vedas describe this as Rudra being the Father of the Maruts and not the generator. In the pond example above, the force with which the guy threw the stone is the Rudra. Rudra being the Father makes the Maruts an appropriate Deity to represent Child Entities. Hence the Rudra-Marut combination narrates the Father telling the Child how far it has to go. In this whole mechanism the Rudra and Vayu factors are the key parameters and they are tied together. Let’s draw this,



The diagram above, if you think deeper, represents the mechanism of “doing things”. So Rudra also represents “doing”. When you control something you are in fact doing something. Examples can be the verbs of your language. Going, Buying, Driving, Talking, Walking, Eating, etc, all involve some sort of Controllability and Change tied together. Now if you look into Vedic perspective, this translates to “doing something for a purpose/reason”. Everything we do has a purpose or reason. Sometimes we know it, sometimes we don’t, but there’s always a reason or to be more precise, a source. The Source is also an important Vedic concept known as Purusha. A concept that explains that nothing is perpetual.

There’s also something you might notice with the above diagram and the mechanism I told it represents. The diagram above, to any simple eye, will look like a model that represents Communication. Well in fact it is. So there exists a connection between Communicating and Doing. Think about it. Communication requires a Source and Destination. So does Doing. A complete sentence that has a verb in it always has a Subject and an Object, the Subject being the Source and the Object being the Destination. Now if the Source is Purusha in Vedic terminology, then what is the Destination? You might want to take a wild guess here from the Deities I have covered so far. If you were think Prithvi, you are in the right track. This actually makes Purusha tied to Dyava. We have now, Rudra, Vayu, Purusha and Dyava somewhat tied together. It means that whatever an object(Prithvi) receives, it comes from its Environment. Or whatever gets Created comes from the Environment. There is always a source. So now you can think about the Creation of the Universe for example. Using the above diagram as the model, the authors of the Vedas jotted down the sequence of Creation as Purusha-Vayu-Soma-Agni-Prithvi(You may notice here as well that Purusha is Source and Prithvi is the Destination). In English this was translated as Ether-Air-Water-Fire-Earth. This direct translation might look confusing as it throws out the important stuff. The Purusha concept kind of tells that the Big Bang Theory may have some flaws in it. Modern scientists somehow try to avoid bringing the idea of God into their theories because, firstly religion today has somewhat showed God to be a worthless piece of shit. Secondly, they do have the right notion that all things can be explained through scientific analysis. Thirdly, although they might have come to the conclusion that some higher spirit exists that created the Light that formed Matter and Anti-Matter, the division in religion would ignite a sort of Holy War. So there has always been a separation between Science and Religion, because Science encourages the act of exploring which Religion does not allow even the slightest. Religion today is more of blind belief, which according to Vedic Science is a terrible thing (I will cover on this more when I commence the Sun marathon). If you think about it Science is the one that is uniting the world while religion is hindering it. Ancient India had no such thing as religion. They all lived with nature together and did what was best for it.

Getting back to the sequence, we know that Purusha and Vayu are already somewhat tied together. By the Vedic concept of Symmetry/Twinning known as Ashwins, we can club Agni with Prithvi. Together they mean “a living object”. The Soma connects the two counterparts and it represents the Material that is transferred. On the whole this classification means the Source Generates the Material Required By the Living Object, or the Source Generates the Material Required to Create the Living Object. In a different classification, but yet conforming to the Symmetry/Twinning concept, we club Vayu, Soma and Agni together, keeping only Purusha and Prithvi as counterparts. The connecting combination Vayu-Soma-Agni represents a transfer function or to a layman the black box. Here Agni represents Conversion, Soma represents the Quantity/Amounts/Weights and Vayu represents the Difference required for Conversion(or the Equation). Remember in this black box, Vayu and Agni are the Counterparts(derived from the Vaastu Chart or could have been the other way too.).

The Egyptians too believed in the same sequence of Creation. You can refer to their sacred texts for verification.

There are a lot more advanced concepts that can derived from this sequence. Concepts that explain why truth prevails. But right now it’s quite early to give the detailed explanation because it requires understanding of a lot more Deities. I can give you a start though from the Deities I have covered so far. In fact the advanced explanation starts from it. Think about Rudra-Maruts and Dyava-Prithvi, with Purusha tying Rudra and Dyava. Remember it’s just a start. Deites like Pitru, Yama, Varuna, Tvashtri, Apam-Napat and Savitr which are important are missing. Also required is a good understanding of the Vaastu Chart which I will cover later.

From the Creation sequence with the first classification, The Maruts in the diagram get replaced by Agni. This is because it represents two sticks rubbed against each other to create Fire. The Purusha Stick does the Work(Vayu) on the Prithvi Stick until Fire(Agni) comes out of the Prithvi Stick. Usually Maruts and Agni go hand in hand. In the propagation example I gave, the Maruts represent ideal distribution of the energy isotropically, but since it is also associated with Agni, the energy doesn’t actually get ideally distributed. Elements of the propagation medium tend to suck some portion of that energy before letting the rest. This in mathematics is represented by attenuation constants of the medium. In Vedic ideology it says that some medium are more hungry than others. The Egyptians documented this concept in their story of Legend of Khnemu and of a Seven Years’ Famine[See http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/leg/leg10.htm] where the King provides a tax solution to the problem. Khnemu is the Egyptian counterpart of the Vedic Kuberan(as per my analysis).Reflection and refraction too follow the same mechanism. In reflection the Soma is returned back to the Purusha Medium, while in refraction, the Soma passes through the Prithvi Medium. Agni and Maruts together represent Child Entities.

Now that we know that Agni and Maruts are associated together, the diagram that represent Communicating or Doing tells that whatever you say or do, something gets eaten from you. That something is usually your character. Your character gets exposed to the environment. Then this can be interpreted correctly or misinterpreted depending on the character of the environment. So deep down you if you have a terrible sorrow, the best thing to do to lessen it is to tell it to someone who you think will listen. In other cases, not everyone should know each and every single thing about you because there are certain things you don’t want others to know about you. Some may know some of you while others may know other things about you and you go on playing this game. The problem happens when your environment has totally ugly minds. That’s when you fall into trouble although you know your intentions weren’t wrong. At this point there isn’t much you can do because ugly minds will always think ugly no matter how much you do.

From the previous paragraph you can see that whatever you do or say, you get some sort of feedback Soma, whether good or bad. This strengthens Maruts association Agni in the context that Agni represents Sacrifice. That implies whatever you do is like doing to yourself. In an ideal environment, when you do something good for the environment, the environment does something good for you and vice versa. It also says that you are responsible for your actions. When you don’t want to, then there’s a violation. In Vedic ideology it translates to openly denying that your child is your child and abandoning it. When that happens child gets hurt(because it has a Vishnu) and in return turns against you. This child won’t rest until you accept it(the point when you accept you committed those actions). To understand this mechanism requires understanding more Deities, the Deities I spoke about.

Another important concept the Maruts introduce is the Ring concept. You will have to look at the very first diagram I posted in this post. Each ring depicts a level of close association. Mathematicians would see this as some sort of Euclidean Distance. In other words the distance between a point from the center point of interest in 2D or 3D space. You can visualize that diagram to be the Solar System or the Sub-Atomic System. They both give the same idea. In Vedic ideology, the closer you are to something the more likely you have characteristics equivalent to it. Also, the closer you are to something, the more you get influenced by it. So if you considering yourself as the center point, the ones that fall into your closest ring are your family members. The closer being your immediate ones like your parents and siblings. Their influences have drastic effects on you, whether good or bad. They are the ones responsible for giving the World maniacs and wise people.

Now for Agni’s association with Maruts, it is notable to recollect that often “getting warm” with something metaphorically means “getting close” to it.

The ring concept also provides one of the reasons why vegetarianism was adopted by Indians in the early times. Today it is known as the Food chain where last creature gets the least energy from the Sun. It was not only the Indians who realized this but also other civilizations across the globe. The staple food adopted by all of them was a vegetarian source that directly converts Sun’s energy to food in order work better during the day. It wouldn’t be smart to have a non-vegetarian source because the Sun’s energy becomes second-hand.

Another important idea the ring concept brings is the idea of Encapsulation, where the smaller rings are considered to be inside the bigger rings. The whole Universe is built that way. There’s always something inside something or something made of something. It kind of tells us that scientist can keep breaking the atom at deeper levels, they will always find something. If you look at it the other way round, it tells us that this Universe is probably inside a shell which is inside another Universe that has many other shells of Universe. This idea only existed among the Vedas until modern science has started theorizing about parallel universes, worm-holes, etc. I don’t know if other religious texts, except the Quran, talk about such things. The Quran seems to have some mention of Upper Worlds as the place we all will go once we reach divinity as being divine is the key to enter those Worlds. In those worlds, the life cycle starts again according deeper Vedic understanding. It’s hard for me describe what kind of worlds those are but all I can extrapolate is that being divine is the fundamental thing there. Since I’m just a mere human in this world, I can’t imagine what is beyond divinity. The Vedas bring Karma through this idea of Encapsulation. It only says that we will take births in this world repeatedly until we become fit to go to an Upper World. Much like repeating a class over again just to get a passing grade. It has made me wonder if the increase in human population has anything to do with this because there also exists cases where the male and female are both fertile but they don’t get children at all or probably after a very long time. Something else controls it according to me.

The Vedic Goddess Deity, Rodasi, is considered to be the consort of Maruts. Rodasi in Sanskrit means “Heaven and Earth Conjoined”. That in plain English means there exists a conjunction of interests between the Entity(Prithvi) and it’s Environment(Dyava). These are the actions(Maruts) an Entity is most likely to do in it’s Environment.

I have covered the important things about the Maruts in this post. Since there’s a lot about them, I’ll keep it a point to explain further concepts when they come to use. Very soon the Vedic track will take a different route. This route will be dedicated to explaining the Sun-like Deities only. The series will be Surya, Aditya, Savitr, Mitra and Pusan. I might bring Chandra after Surya to talk about key concepts that connect them. Before I get into the Sun marathon, I will cover Varuna in my next post.

Rudra

Anything that exists(Indra) has an individuality(Vishnu) associated with it. Even if that particular entity(Indra) is evil. Whether Good or Bad, they both have survival instincts. It depends on the entity they lie within to decide which one stays unharmed in the end. This outer entity has its own set of rules. Having rules is also an important Vedic concept defined as Varuna. Every entity follows its own set of rules that allow it to work in its environment. These rules must be flexible to change(Vayu) from the environment(Soma from environment(Dyava)) to stay alive(Agni-Vayu). The core(Vishnu) should be maintained though because it defines the uniqueness(Individuality- Vishnu). To use the rules in decision making, they should consider a lot of diverse(multiple- feminine) information that are interconnected with each other. Most importantly they should serve each other(creating abundance: multiple and abundant- Lakshmi) well and closed(Indra) for a concrete/fair(Vishnu) decision to be made. Every new information entering must be well connected with the previous information. Lack of connectivity can withhold the decision making process. So rules have to be well connected in multiple aspects to be used(i.e. to have a purpose(Vayu)- to be alive(Vayu)) and information given(Soma) should also be well-connected in the multiple aspects to be digestable(or make sense) by the receiving/deciding entity. This idea can be misused to provide well-connected wrong information that sounds correct. Such information are poisonous and can kill the intended entity. In such a case, a closely associated entity that will also suffer damage from the poisonous information(Soma) about the intended entity must take the initiative to counter that. Closely associated entities are those entities that spend a higher portion of their time with the intended entity. When I come to discussing Pusan, you will be able to understand this better. Therefore the biggest poison that can ultimately kill an entity is from the entity of the highest level of close association. This is why in military endeavours, if these type of entities change loyalty, it’s a very big gain for the interested group. Such entities belong to the core(protective- Vishnu) of the intended entity. Now you can imagine what happens when this is lost. To belong to the core of the entity requires acute intelligence(Agni-Indra: more of Agni-Vishnu since Vishnu is the good subset of Indra) directed towards protection(Vishnu). A lot of constraints(Pitrus: we will look into this later) show up when doing so due to past activities and experiences. To counter these the Vaastu Chart says implementing Eesaniyam(a form of Rudra) works, i.e. taking control of the situation works. So now we are going to understand the Rudra concept.

RUDRA:

Rudra in Sanskrit means Howler derived from the root rud- meaning to cry. It actually depicts a form of communication. A sound form of communication. Communication is all about transferring and receiving information(the Soma here). Let’s break this down to some Soma communication so that we can generalize it. So it’s not only sound but any other form of communication. Now let’s think about what happens during communication. Let’s think about two people talking to each other or a person talking to a gathering. The person takes into account the situation and controls what he/she will say or do next. This is again an Agni model if look into it further. Over here we are talking about the controllability. Most of what we do involves controlling. Even learning. Just keep thinking Agni while I discuss Rudra. When learning about something we send a test stimulus to that entity and see how it behaves. We then document this behavior so that we can pass the knowledge to others. We control the language in such a way to convey exactly what we learned. We include definitions explaining what things are and are not to explain the studied behaviours of that entity further and easily. The learners then begin to visualize the behavior of that entity through the language we used. After learning about something, the next thing we get interested to do is to control that entity in the way we want it to behave. All scientific philosophies developed so far follow this method. Whether it is for implementing or analyzing bigger things, we control those things the way we want it. In the Puranas we encounter the fact that both the Good and Evil forces worship Shiva(the most popular form of Rudra we encountered in the previous post) as Shiva in these contexts represents Scientific Knowledge.

Let’s look further into controllability. It is the part that decides what/how much to allow and what/how much to not allow. It can thought of some sort of traffic regulation where at some point only some lanes are allowed mobility while others aren’t. Rudra itself isn’t as significant as Shiva. Shiva implements Rudra mostly but Shiva is something that shows the benefits of implementing Rudra. So when you travel to India to its temples or read scriptures you will mostly visualize Rudra as Shiva. At this point I can describe Shiva in detail because I haven’t yet discussed Chandra which is a very important part of Shiva. But in my next section more about the ancient representations of Shiva. I had already explained in brief of what Shiva represents in my previous post. We will walk further in that path.

SHIVA:

During my Vedic research, I used to look at historical connotations given in many modern literatures that involved Deities and used my Vedic understanding to understand what those excerpts were actually talking about. I believed that these excerpts maintained the information contained in the original texts because the authors had that responsibility.

I’m a Bharathanatyam Artist and so I come across Shiva quite a number of times. In fact the male form of the art is a Thandava style. Thandava represents the style in which Shiva dances. Shiva also has a very popular epithet known as Nataraja meaning the King of Dance. If you look into the history about the origin of Bharathanatyam, this form of art began in the Treta Yuga(Age) by Sage Bharatha Muni along with the birth of Carnatic Music. When Sage Bharatha Muni was designing the art form(depicted in literature as Bramha, The Creator, creating the art form and passing it onto Bharatha Muni- Note: People of those days credited their work along the skill(Deity) they used. A sort of practice they used to avoid any form of egotism. The same is the case with Sage Vyasa with is work on Mahabharath.) he kept in mind the Shiva aspect. Now with our understanding of Shiva as a controller what could this mean? The art form does some sort of controlling or manipulation but of what? Considering the fact that the art form was also known as the fifth Veda, we can say that it controls the Natural Elements(Deities). So the Natyashashtra talks about how to control the Deities the way you want it. Sounds like some sort of revolutionary technique was developed two Yugas ago to control Nature and the worst part was that it went into the wrong hands as well(This art form was also taught to Raavan, the deadliest demon ever to have existed on Earth). I, as a Bharathanatyam Dancer, don’t even know how this works. I have to study the four Vedas in detail first to even understand a teeny weeny part of it. Now something sounds awkward. How can an art form change Nature? Or how by just dancing can you change Nature? Well we have come across the fact that music, or some sort of sound perception, can cure certain ailments. We just need to think further that visual perception can also make a difference. When both work together in harmony something does change in the viewers. It’s my theory. So you are free to disagree. But if you really think deeper you might unleash the fact that the Human Race is actually some form of Divinity. Think about it. If we are given the capability or permission(Rudra- Nature controls what it gives us) to control Nature there should be some pretty good reason for it. And the fact that we have lost this Divinity also tells us that at some point in time the transition happened.

Now this leads to a question that if Nature controls everything, why was a demon like Raavan allowed to take birth in the first place? The Indians saw the birth of demons differently and they had documented their notion in a famous Purana that narrates the demons to be the incarnation of the Divine Gatekeepers. Since Nature is designed to ensure safety(Vishnu) of all species at the same time serving each other(Lakshmi), Nature was usually represented as Vishnu in the Puranas. The Divine Gatekeepers are the ones that protect the work of this Nature. So if this Nature desires a transition, these Gatekeepers make sure it happens. This idea comes from the Vedic concept known as Pusan, The Path Protector. To make a transition they have to go against the established order(whether good or bad) and that makes them demons. Raavan was meant to make this transition a large one. If you plot the four Yugas on the Vaastu Chart based on their percentage of time lengths with respect to one whole Creation Cycle(One Brahma Day) you will understand why this was the case.

To deal with real problems(real problems have multiple constraints because of the Lakshmi aspect) you will need the courage and confidence to deal with multiple constraints. This is represented as Parvathi/Durga, the consort of Shiva. In Bharathanatyam, the feminine form of the art is her Lasya(graceful) style. It is this style that maintains the art form as a divine art. Women those days were maintainers of divinity, not men. Men were mainly doers, divine or undivine. That’s why Raavan had to attack women to destroy divinity of mankind.

My next post will be about the Maruts. Many of the concepts I have talked about so far will become clear.

Vishnu

When evaluating a system(Prithvi), it's Soma is very important. It always exists and we need to figure out what it is. Most of the Deities exist in the same manner. And once we do so, the rest is left to see how they play. Like any other scientific discovery, where scientists translate(Agni: the transforming(Agni) variables are the Soma) a fluid system(Dyava), for example, to an electrical system(Prithvi) which is easier to evaluate using Kirchoff's Laws and then remap(Indra: the transformed variables(Soma)) the electrical response(Dyava) to the fluid dynamics(Prithvi) to gain insights(Agni:Soma) regarding the behaviour(Vayu: but more of a Rudra-Vayu entity) of the fluid system(Prithvi). The trick remains on how to use the Deities to evaluate systems(Prithvi) that guide our living rules. Let's do an example. Let's evaluate a Fasting System which many religions, preferably Islam, follow for benevolent causes. The benevolence somehow seems devoid with a large number of followers of Islam even though they follow the Ramadan Fasting strictly. There is something else that's happening. Let's figure it out now. Over here the Soma is Fasting. Simple formula, the adjective of the system is the Soma. The Soma for an Electrical System is Electrical Signals(these specify amounts(Soma) entering the system(Prithvi)). The Soma for a Fluid System is the Fluid under consideration. The Soma for a Biological System is the Biological Fluids(Vitamins, Carbohydrates, Proteins, etc). The Parts are the Deities that take in the Fluids(Soma). So Fasting is the Soma. Well Fasting means restraining oneself from consumables, but in our case it's the Soma which represents consumables. The idea here is that you trying how Fasting tastes like. The taste is that you become weak, you cannot concentrate well in your diurnal activities, you feel sleepy, etc. When you break the Fast, you hog like crazy. According to me Ramadan Fasting which is done in a worldwide scale, should be the key in transforming the World into hungerless. It should be the key in giving life to people who are dying of hunger and not kill those who have life already. Somehow the opposite is happening. Details of what is actually happening requires the knowledge of more Deities I haven't covered yet so far but I can combine those effects into macro-levels to Deities we have already covered. Let's start with Agni as Prithvi's child. Agni is always close to Prithvi. That means whenever we talk about some entity(Prithvi) we consider it as something that can consume(Agni- it has life). With Indra, this entity(Prithvi) can feed(Agni) by itself. We can interpret this as you(Prithvi) feed(Agni process) your(Indra) mind what you learn(Soma) from outside(Dyava) you. Your mind becomes your child. This means you create(your child) something in your mind from what you learn. That creation becomes your child and you feed it.



Your mind has many such creations meaning you have more than one child in our mind. The teachers(A Rudra-Vayu(Father Dyava) and Soma-Chandra(Mother Prithvi) entity) of Islam create an imaginary world to their followers(Agni-Maruts: children). The Father is usually the one who brings Soma and the Mother is the one that filters the good from the Soma turning it into Apas(Water- good for living) for her children. This whole process is represented by a single term Shiva(you will find this represented as Rudra with Chandra in the head and Apas emerging from the head). The children go to the outside world and behave in accordance to what they learn. What they learn controls them. The followers(children) create the same world in their minds. So now that world behaves in two ways. It's like your Parents you feel proud of and your child you also feel proud of. During the learning stage it's a child while during the execution stage it's a Parent. Remember Agni not only takes inputs but also gives outputs. This imaginary world is feed more often making the real world which is also created in their minds automatically, since they live in it, starve or suffer. Now do you see what's happening? Every action of theirs is directed to this imaginary world and not the real world they live in. So the Ramadan Fasting is done keeping this imaginary world in mind and this is why the real world isn't benefiting from it. After I discuss Vishnu we can discuss this matter further.

VISHNU:

Vishnu in Sanskrit means the Active One. Usually represented as The Protector. He gets this ability with his friendship with Indra. Protection is some closed loop form and ensures balance between different entities. Indra and Vishnu are always together and they share some characteristics. That defines their friendship. Infact a only a portion of Indra's characteristics represent Vishnu and this makes Indra still the King of Heaven. But the heavenliness is due Vishnu. The good characteristics of Indra belong to Vishnu. We can say that Vishnu is a subset of Indra. The characteristics are Balance, Protection and Intellectual mainly. From these others characteristics of Vishnu can be derived like Equality, Safety, etc. The Intellectual part is an Indra-Agni entity and Vishnu inherits this property from Indra. When I discuss the Maruts, you will be able to understand Agni's Love characteristic. And so being Intellectual is a form of Love inherited by Vishnu. This is inherited through Indra's association with Agni. A friend's brother is a friend too. In my earlier posts I mention Balance as a characteristic of Indra and used it in explaining the Brotherhood of Indra and Agni. That character actually belongs to the subset Vishnu. With the friendship of Indra and Vishnu, it works marvels and this is called Heaven. From the description given so far Vishnu defines the individuality of an entity. Things that define it as Intellectual, ensures Safety of its kind and creates a Balance. Without Vishnu Indra represents Illusion, Shallow Mindedness, Tit-for-Tat, etc. Somehow discussing Vishnu sounds incomplete without discussing Lakshmi. So let me run through Lakshmi discussion first.

LAKSHMI, THE CONSORT OF VISHNU:

Lakshmi is a feminine goddess of abundance. So far we have been discussing Deities with masculine form, except for Prithvi. So let me give you a hint about characterizing the gender of Deities. The Vedas characterize singular controllability as masculine and multiple controllability as feminine. So anything that represents handling multiple things at the same time is feminine. Since they represent multiple handling, they are usually considered the centre of a system, like the Sun, which according to the Vedas is multiple Agni's. However Surya(Sun) is often denoted as masculine and there is a reason for that I'll get to later. Surya also has a feminine character. Being the centre, females usually stay in one place and expect others to approach them. They like being the centre of attraction and so if beauty ensures that attraction, they work on it more. So if you are wondering why your sister, mother or wife has so many make-up kits, here's the reason. Beauty is always associated with feminine. Therefore you should never tell a girl by mistake that she's ugly. Lakshmi represents abundance in multiple aspects. When one has such thing, they will always be happy creating no room for evils like greed, jealousy, anxiety, anger, etc, because they have nothing to loose. Hence the best cure for these evils is Lakshmi, i.e. believing you have "everything"(multiple- feminine) you need to be human in "abundance" and not in just one thing. Through this thought you can ensure the Safety(Vishnu) of others and yourself. Many Gurujis in India and all over the world say the same thing. They always tell you to evaluate all the gifts(Lakshmi) that are already given to you. Whatever is {given or not given to you has a reason}(Rudra-Vayu entity) sufficient enough to do what you were born to do. Nothing more, nothing less. That makes you unique and it defines your Individuality.

Protection(Vishnu) works only when {all possible angles are covered abundantly}(Lakshmi). It requires Intellectuality(Vishnu) in Multiple Fields(Lakshmi). That's why creating Safety Rules is usually not an easy task. One has to think in all possible ways not once, not twice but a million times to come up with a really strong Safety Rule/Law. It's called having Survival(Vishnu) Instincts. When every possible angle is blocked for you, you loose your Individuality, i.e. whatever defines you to be human. And the person doing this to you will be taken care of accordingly to ensure your Safety. Safety rules only make sense if there exists abundance of that particular entity that are interacting. The interaction can happen in multiple ways and all have to covered.

Lakshmi as a single entity can represent abundance of beauty also. Possessing such an entity improves Intellectuality. This is because since you have everything you need to enjoy, you spend more time(Soma) in developing yourself(Indra). I introduced this to address an important issue I will discuss in my next paragraph.

I kind of struggled to explain the Islam matter in this post without including the all the Deities involved in the explanation. What I'm going to discuss now is very important but it comes from evaluating the behaviour of the Deities in the issue. Many people today feel that Islam is being a menace to humanity and those who read the Quran become monsters. The problem lies with the people and not the book. Let's first get to the inception of Islam. Ever since mankind became arrogant many Divine Spirits had taken birth to set mankind in the right path by getting down to their level of intellect. This arrogance originated from Lanka and spread all over the world as time passed. If you are a person from Sri Lanka and you read this, I feel sorry about it but you will understand what I'm talking about. This arrogance was somehow controlled by the people themselves in most parts of the world except in the Arabian Peninsula. Nature did that. Most parts of the world had beauty in Nature with colorful mountains, plants trees, beautiful lakes, rivers and falls. The breath-taking beauty in these parts played a vital role in making mankind happy and delightful. The arrogance was controlled by Nature itself. The people in the Arabian Peninsula did not have that. It was plain sand and only sand. Only one thing. This region was devoid of the beauty the other parts of the world had. And so the arrogance wasn't controlled here. So if a man saw a beautiful looking girl or lady, he would go ahead to grab her for himself. He would grab as many as he could. Such things were very minimal in the other parts of the world. If a man saw a beautiful girl or lady, he was able to control his arrogant emotions. Prophet Muhammed took birth in the Arabian Peninsula to set these people in the right path. He realized what his people lacked and went down to their level of intellect. The idea of the burqa was to control the men. The Quran works only for people living in the Arabian Peninsula because the Nature there is completely different from the other parts of the world. The Prophet didn't say that a man can have four wives just like that. He said, if the man was growing many orphans personally he could have a maximum of four wives only to mother the orphans. Much of the Prophets language was to interest his people to follow the right path. The use of many virgins was probably to interest them. He also talked about the desert transforming into green beauty. I'm not sure whether he marked this as the end of Islam. But I think what he really tried to say was that once the desert is transformed to be beautiful, mankind's intellectuality should increase and much of things he said should be neglected. By Nature's grace, the Arabian Peninsula is now very rich because of the crude oil reserves they have. It is transforming into a beautiful region and now the intellect of the people is increasing. At this time the Quran can definitely add poison to the developing minds. The Quran should be rescrutinized to find out what can be neglected.

Another important thing people should change from is fighting about what name to call the Supreme Spirit. It's becoming ridiculous especially in this age of scientific development. They should understand that its just a name. It's like car in English is gaadi in Hindi, vandi in Tamil, sayara in Arabic. Now just because someone doesn't call it sayara, he/she doesn't become an infidel.

Now that you somewhat exposed to Rudra, my next post will be about it. After Rudra I will talk about the Maruts and many things will become comprehensible to you.

Soma

There's a lot more we can deduce from the Deity relations. They can lead us to deeper scientific thoughts. But the mind has to trained well to use them effectively. Since Vedas has been part of religion for so long, and as I mentioned earlier about the science of benevolent living, I'll stick to such types of discussions mainly. According to me religion is dirty and it needs to be cleaned up. It is actually the first thing that has to be cleaned up before anything else, even before cleaning up politics, because they are the set of rules people live by as they grow. Yes... since it's something that grows(Agni- learning/consumption) you, it can really define your character. So if it's dirty, you'll become the same. Somehow religion has convinced us that there exist two imaginary worlds, one above us where Gods live in cloudy like places and the other is below us where Demons live with fire and snakes. Well if you think about it, its actually true that there are clouds above us and fire below us. Snakes???... I'm not so sure about... People long ago were poetic and dramatic about everything... They related thoughts with natural elements or with things we experience daily just to convey us their message... Actually thinking that's how things literally are is quite unacceptable... and that's what has happened over time... well to be honest, there was a point of time in the Earth's history that turned mankind to be arrogant, greedy, jealous, dishonest, etc... mankind was never as such before... mankind divided itself and manipulated thoughts to their communities so that they have different beliefs from others and remain separate... it is this that has caused all the havoc and confusion which was not allowed to be questioned... they were supposed to believe it whether it made sense or not... if it didn't they were told to make sense out of it(the senseless). Simple example... just a few decades ago, people in India were burning widows with their dead husbands alive because somewhere in the Vedas it said that the wife burns with her dead husband... they literally thought that was supposed to be done for real, missing its poetic or dramatic flavour... now its no more because India has progressed scientifically over the years... I'll explain that particular notion when somewhere in my blog I feel I have covered enough material to explain it... I believe in step by step learning so that the person reading this blog can fully understand the concepts I explain from the Vedas. I will not make the same mistake that was done earlier. If there's something I don't understand, you won't find it in my blog, and I will not convince you to believe in it... I will not create imaginary worlds for you and so do the Vedas...

SOMA:

Soma is depicted as the drink of the Gods/Deities. So now we are talking about materials that are consumed. Well now that we know that any object(Prithvi) has life(Agni) and can consume(Agni) from its environment(Dyava), that particular material it consumes is Soma. This Soma can be humans in a Customer Service Centre or cars moving on different lanes of a road. Whatever you are modelling, the material that enters the body(Prithvi) from outside(Dyava) is the Soma. The next thing we do is to specify amounts and how they are distributed or moved about (Vayu). Now we are talking numbers... a very important thing for scientific discoveries as well. So when we have parameters(Deities) in a system or equation, they take in numbers/values(Soma) and that decides it's response. So just like numbers are important in science, the Soma concept is also important in Vedic ideologies.

The Vedas describe Indra and Agni as the two main lovers of Soma. And Indra loves Soma more that Agni. If we put Soma as eatable food, this idea will make sense immediately. As living beings(Agni), the idea of sustenance(Indra) leads us to look for food(Soma) to eat. This is depicted in the Vedas as Indra taking in Soma to defeat Vrtra(drought). When we talk about drought, we talk about drought in we need and we take action to balance(Indra) it out. We can translate(Agni) this to learn(Agni): If one feels stressed(drought in happiness), he/she should look for things or people they love to make them happy(balance out the drought in happiness).

[Note: if there's any word that falls under a Deity we have come across so far I will mention it in a WORD(DEITY) format to help you see the Deities in play in my language.]

So Soma can represent expendable things also. We saw it as food, we can see it as money or we can see it as time or space. Any substance that makes things happen. Well the idea "Time is Money" seems to be evident here. It depends if you want that to be the equation of your life. So let's talk about time. The biggest Soma that is given to us. It has limits(Indra) and that defines our existence(Indra). A really smart(Agni) person will try to utilize/spend this to develop himself/herself(Indra) and his/her close associates, like relations/family. You will be wasting that significant time(Soma) if you spend that on destroying another person's life because of jealousy or he/she didn't comply to your thoughts. Time as Soma with Agni as its lover, every second of that time(Soma) gets converted(Agni) by what you do. This will be evident when I get to the Maruts. And it never comes back, i.e. it can't be reused. Much like scrap material left over after production in a factory or the shit you dump in the toilet. To reuse(Indra) that you will need another converter/living thing/life(Agni) to convert that to something useful or good for consumption(Agni). Need another life? It explains the karma concept. So most of what happens in our life is to convert the bad things we did in our previous lives to good things that are useful for salvation. That happens only if you feel you have to correct the mistakes you made. So you will get shit in your next life to balance(Indra- reuse) out the shit you gave in the previous life. Now this doesn't mean that you should wait for your next life to correct your mistakes. All you need to do is realize your mistake and take the pain/shit to correct it to balance it out. When it gets balanced(Indra) out you got your new life. This is what Jesus said exactly. Repent and you will be forgiven. The repenting part is the part where you take corrective measures. It's obvious. You can't say you repented unless you have done something to correct it. The whole point of repenting is to feel the pain you caused on the other person. Same thing happens in work. You make a mistake, who takes the responsibility of correcting it. It's you. And then there are consequences which you will have to take care of as well and once the balance is made, you will not have to worry about it anymore and you can live your new life. The new life is what you get when you are forgiven.

I had to come to Soma to explain this because without this concept explained, I couldn't have explained the value of time(Soma) for life(Agni). Again here to balance(Indra) out the mistake to need to spend time(Soma) for it. Now without discussing Vishnu, I can't make further comments on this matter. Therefore my next post will be about Vishnu. Vishnu is yet another very important Vedic Deity and it is the basis of Hinduism.

Vayu

Once we know the details about most of the Vedic Deities, or atleast the ones mentioned in the website http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/vedaread.htm, we can started playing around with them to discuss topics we have pondered about for long and have a vague or no answer to them, for example those of spiritual context. And it will not be difficult because being humans we understand humans well and we can make clear thoughts on the concerned topic. We can also discuss serious scientific notions by playing around with them and they can help direct discoveries... an example of this (it may not be a strong one but just to give you hints) we encountered in the previous post that to set something in a cyclic motion, an external force was required... scientists today believe that our Earth(Prithvi) was set into rotational motion(Indra) by some external object(Dyava) that rammed into it. That remains of that ramming formed our Moon(Chandra). And so we have Day(Usas) and Night(Ratri). If we understand the associations between these Deities and clearly from the contents of the Rig Veda we can be sure that the theory is correct. If there is a mutual correlation between Vedic deductions and scientific theories, we can then use the Vedic deductions to extrapolate theories further to aid the investigation. This was something I came across recently through the "The Universe" TV series and their final theory, which was directed to understanding the formation of the Moon, explained the rotation of the Earth which sparked the Prithvi-Dyava concept I knew about. Could there be a correlation? Right now I don't know because I haven't read the Rig Veda completely. Or I'm not sure if I would find it in the Rig Veda. May be it's in the Yajur Veda or Sama Veda. It's a long way to go.

So now let me give you an idea of what might be there in the contents of the Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharvana Vedas. To explain this let me talk about a simple example. Let's go with language for example. When we start learning a language, we first learn all the alphabets. These are like the contents of the Rig Veda. Instead of the alphabets, it's the Deities. Then we learn how to use the alphabets to spell words. These are the contents of the Yajur Veda. So it talks about connecting the different Deities and what they behave like. Next we learn how to use these words to form a complete sentence. These are the contents of the Sama Veda. They talk about connecting the various combinations in a particular sequence(song) to get a desired behavior. Finally we learn how use sentences to construct an essay. These are the contents of the Atharvana Veda. So now imagine what could this be? The whole notion of magic and counter-magic might be evident here. It actually represents the different stages of training. It can be any field... Chemistry, Microelectronics, Economics, Coding,... anything.

So just like every other science, Vedic science can be simulated and you can accomplish whatever you desire to accomplish if done correctly... Hey, industries sometimes come up with faulty products.

VAYU:

Vayu represents Wind. When we think of Wind, we immediately think movement of something... leaves, trees, etc. So what is movement. It's a change in position. Or change in the current state. This is a very important concept because many things in nature are subject to change. And we call them the dynamics of that particular thing. Now if something has to change, it has must have a purpose for that change. A kind of reason of existence in the new state. It's like this, say you made something, a clay pot. You definitely "changed" mud into clay to make that clay pot. So you "changed" mud into clay for a "reason" or "purpose", otherwise why would you do it. You definitely don't want to waste time doing something that's of no use. Unless you are bored and you don't know what to do... you make or do things of no "purpose" or "reason". But then you "change" your state from being a lousy lazy bugger to being a busy person doing something just to kill time. The "purpose" for that "change" was to kill time. So to have a "purpose" is to have a "change" in something.

So now let's get into the brotherly relation of Vayu with Agni and Indra. We already encountered the brotherhood of Agni and Indra.

BROTHERHOOD OF VAYU AND AGNI:

Vayu and Agni have a very strong relation. So strong that they face each other in the Vaastu Chart. The Vaastu Chart is a very interesting chart used today for placing the household. But it's not only that. It can be about daily clerical activities, or a sequence or stages of building or doing something new. When translated to Human lifetime cycle, it can tell something about the different Yugas. I will definitely post details about it in my blog once I have covered all the Deities that participate in it. So let's get to it. When something "changes" or "moves" we say it has "life". Have seen those scenes where they try to bring back an unconscious guy back life. How do they know the he/she is back to life? A slight "movement" he/she makes tells them that. When you "learn" something, "change" happens... the whole point of education is to "change" you from an illiterate idiot to a wise person... that's the ideal case... most of us become wiser idiots instead but still a "change" happened from illiterate idiot to a wise idiot... the level of idiocity "changed"... To Neural Engineers this would be immediately understood because according to them only when the weights "change" they say "learning" has occurred. A simple way to understand this, when something "changes" from a known state we "learn" that something has happened. "Conversion" is a "change" of state. "Sacrifices" are "changes" you make to yourself. "Conversion", "Learning", "Consumption" and "Sacrifices" must have a "Reason" or "Purpose"... We can also extrapolate from this brotherhood of Vayu and Agni that "Life" should also have a "Purpose" or "Reason" for existence.

BROTHERHOOD OF VAYU AND INDRA:

This brotherhood is not so strong as like Agni-Indra or Agni-Vayu. Agni actually stands as a mediator between the two and that makes the brotherhood of Vayu and Indra senseless without Agni. The only things we can make without Agni are that "change" or "movement/motion" can happen in "cyclic" fashions, when "change" happens "balance" should be maintained and "purpose" must be some "closed" "reason", like you are doing it because its required and a "balance" is met.

BROTHERHOOD OF AGNI, INDRA AND VAYU:

This is by far an interesting combination. It actually gives the definition of being Intellectual. It can be made as follows. Being intellectual means "learning" by making "changes" "by yourself". Artificial Intelligence is designed on this basis. If you can get your robot to "learn" and make "changes" "by itself", we say it's intelligent. Also when something "moves" "by itself" we say it has "life". So to have "life" means to be intellectual. All "life" forms are intellectual and so its absurd to categorize animals as unintellectual. They all have a "purpose" which we may not know immediately just by looking at them(Indra - Illusion). Let me add one more thing about Indra. Since almost everything exists in a closed loop fashion or form, we can include "existence" and "form" in Indra. So to "exist" it must have a "form", a "closed loop form". The notion is simple. If I give you a blank piece of paper and tell you to show me any markings on it, you won't be able to do so because it's blank. Whereas if I put a small dot mark on that blank paper and tell you to spot it, you will be able to. Your brain sees it as some "closed loop form" to allow you to say that there "exists" a marking. I can draw a line and still your brain will see it as a "closed loop form" to say that it "exists". So to keep in mind that these Vedic concepts "exist", the Indians gave them "form" or "converted" them into "forms" and "life". These "life" "forms" where treated as intellectual beings in human "form" to specify their level of intellectualism, because they aid in intellectual thinking for humans(Humans prefer to learn from a human teacher).

VAYU AS THE SON OF PRITHVI-DYAVA:

In the previous post we encountered a simple explanation of Vayu's relation with Prithvi-Dyava as their son. Now that we know a few more details about Vayu we can go further. There should exist atleast two states an object can be in to expect a "change" between them. There should exist atleast two distinctive positions for an object to "move" from one position to another. Unless there exists a destiny from where you started, you don't have a "purpose".

THE FAMILY(PRITHVI-DYAVA, AGNI, INDRA AND VAYU):

Now this just adds the Object-Environment attribute to the discussion we made under the Brotherhood of Agni, Indra and Vayu. Therefore to remain intellectual, the entity under consideration should always take inputs or "consume/learn" from its environment and "change" "itself" accordingly. The amount "consumed/learned" decides how much "change" is done to "itself" according to the environment. If a good amount is "consumed/learned", the entity still keeps it's original or previous "form" but now with new or more ingredients. Absolutely "consuming/learning" nothing can kill it eventually and it will become dead. We just encountered in the brotherhood of Indra and Agni that "consuming" occurs for "sustenance". "Learning" keeps that entity "alive". "Learning" nothing, i.e. not willing to make any "changes" to "itself", makes what it already knows dead or out-dated/obsolete. And removes the "purpose" of keeping it "alive". Religion, today, is something that doesn't "learn" anything from the environment at all. Whatever was established say 2000-5000 years ago still remains like that. So it's actually dead and is adding more filth to the current environment. This concept of becoming dead comes from the Vedic concept Yama. As you know whatever is "learned/consumed", the entity gets its qualities. You become what you "learn". So when people "learn" dead entities such as religion, they become dead minded people. And they add filth to current "learning" developments of their environment. Now "consuming/learning" too much, i.e. making too many "changes" on "itself", in one go from the environment can totally change the entity's original or previous "form". Its an ugly thing and it makes the entity ugly since it lost its original "form". Losing original form is like losing individuality and this individuality concept comes from Vishnu. After I give a discussion about Vishnu, it will become clear. According to Neural Engineers, these are the effects of large learning coefficients. The desired solution takes longer to reach or is never reached and the whole "purpose" of "learning" goes waste because the problem, the entity here, has lost "shape". So "learning/consuming" from the environment should have a good "limit" to keep you in good "shape/form".

Now that I have spoken about amounts, my next post will be about Soma. Soma is in fact a very popular Vedic Deity. Its so popular that whenever someone thinks of the Vedas, they never miss to think about Soma. In the Vedas, Soma is a very important concept. So before I go further into explaining the remaining Deities/Concepts, let me introduce Soma first.

Prithvi-Dyava

In my last post we saw the togetherness of Indra and Agni. A mysterious connection between some cyclic nature with the properties of fire. All that is needed later on is to try to use them in any field of interest. For example you can debate for yourselves whether practical learning is better than theoretical learning. The use of these concepts can help you find the answer. You will realize that for subjects that require skill, practical learning is better while for those that don't require skill, theoretical learning is better. When you enter the Corporate World, your colleagues require you to do something and that requires skill. Hence it is best to engage in practical learning to blend well with the Corporate World. In the case of subject matters like the one in this blog, theoretical learning works. But to apply it practically, the reader will require practical assignments "to try for himself/herself". "Trying for yourself"... it's actually a good way of "learning" that can be deduced from the Indra-Agni relationship. Meditation works in the same way. When I began to learn these concepts, I went through two sources that explained in brief about the Deities. They were the book on "Indian Mythology" by Veronica Ions and the website I gave you earlier, http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/vedaread.htm and I "tried to make out for myself" what they were talking about. I didn't go straight to the texts because it was even more confusing. But after I "learned" the connections and ideology well "by myself", the texts started making sense. So far I have worked on ten stanzas of the First Book of the Rig Veda successfully. It's still very tedious because of the language.

PRITHVI-DYAVA:

In Sanskrit this means Earth-Sky. Looks like we getting into the Universe now. Well... not exactly. It does start changing your perspective a little bit. When I introduced Agni(Fire), it was just something we learned through one of the natural elements. But the concept I'm going to talk about will give you an idea how to visualize Vedic ideology. This Earth-Sky combination can be visualized in general as an Object-Environment combination. A good modeling technique. Good for modeling Vedic ideologies as well.

We know well that the Earth gets its inputs from the Sky. Being on Earth, we get Sunlight, Heat, Rain, Oxygen, etc that all come from the Sky as inputs for our well-being. So in our Object-Environment generalization, the object gets its inputs from the environment. Inputs can also come from the Object/Earth but they take their route via the Environment/Sky. In return, the Object/Earth also gives back to the Environment/Sky. This can be drawn as an object that takes inputs and gives outputs. Sounds like a block diagram representation of something. These sort of representations do help a lot in understanding mechanisms or concepts. This is why simulation tools are built in almost every scientific field, because looking at mathematical equations doesn't always give a clear picture. Numbers always give clear pictures. Vedic understanding also happens in the same way. We too can build simulation tools for it once the concepts are clear and we know how to evaluate them on the number line.

Now let's get to the Indra-Agni relation where both of them are the sons of Prithvi-Dyava.

BIRTH OF AGNI:

The Vedic scriptures describe the birth of Agni through two objects. It's always two objects. They need to rub against each other to give birth to Agni(Fire). Some sort of Frictional Force. Out of the two objects, one of them is considered to be the Prithvi(Earth) and the other as Dyava(Sky). Since there is no other combination of masculine and feminine as such described in the Vedas, whenever two entities are "coupled" together to form another, the coupling entities are considered as Prithvi-Dyava combination. Here, the Earth is feminine while the Sky is masculine. Now let's look into this further. Let's put the Outside Environment as another object and "couple" it with the Object under consideration. Only if the two exist, the Object under consideration can take inputs. Another way of saying this, only if the two exist, the Object under consideration can "consume" something from its Environment. The same thing happens with "learning". "Learning" is actually a "consumption" of knowledge. "Sacrifices" are made only after viewing certain "external" events that affect the sacrificer. "Conversion" can only take place when there are atleast two things. For example, Steam comes from Water and Heat. Or Ice comes from Water and Chillness. Or Clean Water comes from Dirty Water and a Filter. This end-product of "conversion" is an extension of the Smoke giving aspect of Fire. I didn't cover this while explaining Agni because it required the understanding of Prithvi-Dyava.

BIRTH OF INDRA:

Just like Agni, Indra also requires two things (Prithvi-Dyava) to create it. It requires some "external" force to set an "object" into a "cyclic" motion. "External" forces don't necessarily set "objects" into cyclic motion but also to non-cyclic motion. Non-cyclic motions come under the Vayu concept which I will cover in my next post. Vayu is also a son of Prithvi-Dyava and it explains Newton's First Law of Motion, the Law of Inertia. Let's do more. "Balance" is always mentioned when there are atleast two things. It requires "coupling" of two points of a line to make a "closed loop" or a "circle".

When I explain Vayu, I will give the complete relation between Prithvi-Dyava, Agni, Indra and Vayu.